Saturday, August 31, 2013

Among the odder cable shows to which MM is addicted, there are several programs on competing networks about re-sellers who find their merchandise in abandoned storage units which have been put up for auction by the storage facility due to lack of rental payments. A&E's "Storage Wars," set in Southern California and "Storage Wars: Texas" each focus on four to six regular "characters" who know and hate one another and will do anything they can to keep the other bidders from getting a unit. It's entertaining in small doses. Unfortunately, MM likes to watch the marathons. Luckily, just such a marathon today led to tonight's truly epic entry.

One of the bidders came across a kit very much like the one pictured above. He took it to a local medical training facility to have it appraised and was informed that it was phlebotomy practice kit, used to teach nurses, phlebotomists and other medical technicians to draw blood for testing.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Mom's a huge fan of crime procedurals and she watches allof them. Some are better than others (though I never have a problem watching adorable Aussie Matt Passmore on "The Glades"). One of the shows I don't care if I miss is Eric McCormack's "Perception," a show which borders on the ludicrous more often than not (and please do NOT bring Scott Wolf back next season, unless it's in flashbacks leading up to his murder in next season's premiere). Still it provided tonight's post, so I must give it a nod. And once you read what Mom said, you will understand the accompanying image.

Commenting on the episode's Main Suspect's pattern of picking up women in bars:

About Me

I'm an actor, director, designer, playwright and screenwriter who has worked on stages in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for over 35 years. I've done everything from ancient Greek theatre to
Rogers and Hammerstein, Miller; Sondheim; Weber; Durang; McNally, Rudnick and Silver - though not necessarily in that order. I'm a gay man 'of a certain age,' set in my ways and unlikely to change any time soon.